This year, PEN International on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, has drawn attention to five writers in prison around the World including Aslı Erdoğan from Turkey to whom Margaret Atwood has written a letter of solidarity.

Turkey / Freedom of expression: UN human rights expert to assess current situation GENEVA / ANKARA (14 November 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye is carrying out his first official visit to Turkey this week to assess the

The opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) held its weekly parliamentary group meeting on Nov. 15 with only its spokesperson, Ayhan Bilgen, in protest against the ban on guests due to their slogans.

Commenting on attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin being taken into custody, İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Committee has described the incident as an “ illegal practice of investigation and detention [which] is a deliberate violation of the right to defense and to fair trial” and noted that they would be following the trial.

As one interesting side note, the President of Turkey seems to know which side his bread is buttered on when it comes to the American elections. One Wikileaks missive showed that Erdogan’s proxies have been trying to make donations to the Democrats and .

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is trying to impose a dictatorial regime on Turkey through a shift to a presidential system that would grant more powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said

About hydroelectric power plants, President Erdoğan has said “they revolutionized”, they confronted difficulties in this matter and continued, “Greenpeace activists have always been trouble in our Black Sea”.

The operation against daily Cumhuriyet beggars belief. A paper that was hounded not so long ago by prosecutors who are accused today of acting at the behest of Fethullah Gülen – the Islamic cleric said to have masterminded the July 15 coup attempt – is now being accused of supporting Gülen.

Are western journalists in Turkey self-censoring?American Enterprise Institute
At the end of RedHack’s deadline, the group began leaking documents obtained from Minister Albayrak’s personal email accounts, which he reportedly used for government business… The leak is composed of 57,623 emails, dating from April 2000 to today.